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MTS Group is the market leader for electronic fixed-income securities trading in Europe. On average, over €85 billion are traded each day, comprising activity for over 1,200 participants across 25 markets. The MTS Group has become the only genuine pan-European market for fixed-income securities present in all eurozone countries and Israel, as well as in other debt markets in Europe. Known as “The European Bond Exchange,” it aids the overall development of the European government bond market and facilitates its integration. MTS endeavours to deliver the full benefits of an electronic trading marketplace while working with both issuers and participants to create a unified fixed-income market of unparalleled liquidity, transparency and efficiency.
As a leader in its field, SIX Telekurs specializes in the procurement,
processing and distribution of international financial information. Financial
market specialists at SIX Telekurs gather information from all the world’s major
trading venues – directly and in real time. The SIX Telekurs database with its
structured and encoded securities administration data for more than 4.4 million
financial instruments is unique in terms of its depth of information and data
coverage. With offices in 23 countries, SIX Telekurs combines the advantages of
global presence and local know-how.
SIX Telekurs is a company of SIX Group. On a worldwide scale, SIX Group offers
first-rate services in the areas of securities trading, clearing and settlement,
as well as financial market information and payment transactions.
Arcontech provides world class systems for real-time collection, processing, distribution, presentation and on-line trading of financial markets data.
Arcontech has succeeded for 29 years due to timely delivery of dependable, cost-effective products and customised solutions. Its multiple award winning CityVision solution is used by many, from National Government, Central Banking, Data Vendors and Inter Dealer Brokers through to Internet Bookmakers.
Its enterprise features, including dynamic configuration, speed and high resilience make it an excellent choice for reliability, flexibility and scalability.
Dow Jones & Company (www.dowjones.com) is a News Corporation company (NYSE: NWS, NWS.A; ASX: NWS, NWSLV; www.newscorp.com). Dow Jones is a leading provider of global business news and information services. Its Consumer Media Group publishes The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, MarketWatch and the Far Eastern Economic Review. Its Enterprise Media Group includes Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones Factiva, Dow Jones Client Solutions, Dow Jones Indexes and Dow Jones Financial Information Services. Its Local Media Group operates community-based information franchises. Dow Jones owns 50% of SmartMoney and 33% of STOXX Ltd. and provides news content to radio stations in the U.S.
Equinix is the leading global provider of network-neutral data center and interconnection services, offering premium colocation, traffic exchange and outsourced IT infrastructure solutions. Global financial firms look to Equinix for world-class reliability and network diversity. Equinix data centers serve as critical, core hubs for exchanges and trading platforms worldwide. With 39 data centers located in 18 strategic markets across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, Equinix enables customers to reliably operate their mission-critical infrastructure on a global basis.
Exegy, Inc., provides high performance hardware-accelerated computing appliances that efficiently process and enrich market data for the world’s leading financial organizations. Exegy’s unique market data products, such as the Exegy Ticker Plant, respond to financial organisations’ growing demands for low latency, reduced cost of ownership and flexibility. The Exegy Ticker Plant easily integrates into existing infrastructures and is compatible with leading operating systems and interconnects.
FactSet is a leading provider of global financial and economic information. Combining hundreds of databases into our own dedicated online service, FactSet offers instant access to accurate financial data and analytics to thousands of investment professionals around the world. Because we understand that every client has distinct data needs, we strive to offer information resources that are not only comprehensive, but flexible. With the capability to integrate a variety of analysis applications in a single, easy-to-use Windows interface and to create custom reports in Microsoft Office and through e-mail, FactSet can design a solution that’s perfectly suited to you.
Finsoft Financial System Limited
Access to reliable up-to-date Investment Information throughout the organisation and by clients is vital in today’s market.
Fincore Investment Data Central from Finsoft Financial is the solution. Fincore automates the process of collecting, cleaning, quality assuring, aggregating and enriching all investment information into a single global repository. The repository covers not only reference and market data but also corporate actions, positions, transactions, valuations, benchmarks, yield curves, and performance and risk analytics. OTC and other complex instruments are no problem for Fincore. As soon as newly acquired or updated investment data has been quality checked it is then immediately available to authorised users via a secure browser based portal or can be automatically published to any other system such as fund accounting, trading, client reporting or your own online client portal.
Automation and stringent validation of all data and a permanent quality audit trail helps avoid costly and embarrassing incidents arising from incorrect or inconsistent data. Costs for data maintenance can be reduced since reference and market data is only maintained once and position and trade data is consolidated and distributed in a single format and quality checked before distribution. Most importantly better access to correct and up to date data helps you improve efficiency throughout your business and opens up fresh opportunities for building new revenue generating business.
For nearly a century IBM has been working with the world’s leading financial services institutions, building industry skills as well as making research and development investments specifically tuned to the needs of the global financial markets. Drawing on this experience and a proven history, IBM offers a wide range of technologies, software, and services. We’re a flexible partner ready to assemble the right components to help you, your clients, and your stakeholders capitalize on innovation and achieve operational efficiencies, resulting in sustainable revenue growth. For more information, go to ibm.com/financialmarkets.
ICAP is the world’s premier interdealer broker and the source of global market information and commentary for professionals in the international financial markets. Derived from ICAP’s global daily average transaction volumes in excess of USD 1.5 trillion, more than 60% of which is electronic, ICAP’s data solutions include real-time, end-of-day and historical market data, as well as research and commentary from some of the world’s leading economists and analysts.
Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE:IDC) is a leading global provider of financial market data, analytics and related services to financial institutions, active traders and individual investors. Through its businesses, Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data, Interactive Data Real-Time Services, Interactive Data Fixed Income Analytics, and eSignal, the Company has approximately 2,300 employees in offices located throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. data vendors
NYSE Euronext Data Solutions, part of the global exchange NYSE Euronext, provides high quality data products enhancing trading decisions. We offer a broad suite of low latent orderbook as well as customized historical and reference data products and solutions straight from NYSE Euronext markets' NYSE, NYSE Arca, Euronext, Liffe and Alternext.
For more information please visit us at www.nyxdata.com < http://www.nyxdata.com>, the single platform for all NYSE Euronext data.
SAVVIS is a global leader in IT infrastructure services for business applications. With an IT services platform spanning North America, Europe, and Asia, SAVVIS is an industry leader in delivering secure, reliable, and scalable hosting, network, and application services. These solutions enable customers to focus on their core business while SAVVIS ensures the quality of their IT systems and operations. SAVVIS’ strategic approach combines virtualisation technology, a global network and multiple data centres, and automated management and provisioning systems.
3d innovations limited is a new breed of services organisation, compiling the best practices of Management Consultancy, Software Development and IT Professional Services.
We provide consultancy and product services to the Financial Markets based on our core competencies in:
• Market and Reference Data
• Risk Management
• Straight-through-Processing
• Related operations and technologies.
Our unique professional profile is built on an amalgam of domain expertise together with intimate business practice competency. Our approach to solving business problems is based on Value Proposition and ROI which is reflected in our product suite: Profiler, Abacus and Contextum.
euNetworks is Europe’s foremost provider of mission-critical, extreme performance and capacity data services. We serve large Corporates, Carriers and Service Providers door2door. All our services are delivered over our wholly owned €1.3 billion pan-European all-fiber optic network which combines ‘ long-haul’ inter-city network linking Europe’s largest economies, with ‘ last-mile’ metropolitan networks in 15 European cities. euNetworks is a member of euro-one, a collaboration of fiber optic network providers to deliver infrastructure and networking solutions connecting Eastern, Central, Western Europe and North America (www.euro-one.com).
Markit is the leading industry source for asset valuation data and services supporting independent price verification and risk management in global financial and energy markets. Founded in 2001, the company is an independent enterprise with which the world’s leading financial institutions and energy traders work strategically to create price transparency. Today, Markit enjoys the sponsorship of 13 financial institutions who manage assets in excess of $10 trillion, and data contribution relationships with over 50 dealing firms. Markit has designed, launched and acquired over 20 financial data services which are now used by over 300 institutions globally. Areas of product expertise and service include an independent valuation perspective on OTC derivatives (credit, equity, FX, rates, energy, power, metals and structured products), corporate bonds, syndicated loans, dividend forecasting, and index and ETF management.
Standard & Poor’s provides solutions that help organizations with clearance and settlement STP, compliance and risk management, security master file maintenance, data management, and mutual fund and client statement evaluations. Services include global securities identification and cross-referencing, securities pricing, reference data, credit ratings and research to support securities operations and investment managers worldwide.
SmartCo provides Smart Financial Data Hub, a leading global data management solution covering all the data area, including market data, corporate actions, indexes and benchmarks, third parties, funds and mandates, financial analysis, etc., as well as operational data for positions and transactions. Its innovative and scalable technology accelerate design and deployment of durable, upgradeable solutions, and allows financial institutions to model and centralise data, to distribute or give access to the whole data universe, to optimize data quality, data administration workflow and data governance, and to urbanise their information system. With its cutting-edge solution and technology, SmartCo has been selected and recognized by large financial institutions as a strategic solution to reduce their risks, optimize their processes, meet regulatory expectations, accelerate the delivery of new products, and better serve their clients.
TheMarkets.com provides innovative workflow solutions that maximize the benefits of broker research and other services within the institutional investor’s workflow. We serve over 2000 client firms in 46 countries. And, what may matter most to them, we save users three hours per week, with comprehensive content, intuitive interfaces and value-added functionality designed to fit the way they access and use research.
TNS provides financial institutions with flexible, robust and secure electronic trading solutions. Our low latency private network provides access to a global extranet community which includes a large number of buy-sides, as well as market data providers. The quality of the managed TNS service is second to none, ensuring our customers get everything they need for electronic trading. Connections to other on-net trading partners can be up and running in three days or less. Global connectivity at a local price. Please visit our website or email financial@tnsi.com for further information.
Bobsguide.com is the world’s premier online financial IT community of software, hardware and services related to asset management, corporate treasury, banking, trading, insurance and risk management. We currently list nearly 2000 companies from over 161 countries who promote more than 5300 products and services in the financial arena. All basic entries on the guide are FREE and our enhanced packages include access to RFIs and the visitor details. To receive our daily newsletter, which reaches over 25000 members or to add your company and products/services to our guide, please visit www.bobsguide.com or email us at support@bobsguide.com.
The EDM Council is an industry association specifically focused on
facilitating and leveraging Enterprise data as a critical asset to a firm to;
• increase efficiency,
• minimize risk, and
• create competitive advantage.
As a business forum the EDM Council enables senior officers responsible for
content management to share information on the business strategies and practical
implementation realities associated with achieving enterprise-wide control over
data content.
The Financial Information Services Division (FISD) of the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) provides a neutral global business forum for exchanges, market data vendors, specialist data providers, brokerage firms, asset managers, banks and solution providers. FISD brings members together to address and resolve business and technical issues related to distribution, management, administration and use of market data. Members use FISD to address problems, exchange ideas, build business relationships and improve the business climate associated with the worldwide flow of financial information.
